Bulletin of GTSJ 2005

Abstracts of Recent Technical Papers

Numerical Simulations on Heat Transfer inside an Integrated Impingement Cooling

System for Higher TIT Turbine Blades
FUNAZAKI Ken-ichi, KUDO Toshimitsu and HACHIYA Kazunori
Iwate University
1. Introduction
This paper deals with extensive numerical studies
on heat transfer characteristics and fluid dynamics
inside several configurations of impingement cooling
device combined with pins. Great attention was paid to
turbulence model and its screening inspection was
executed to choose the turbulence model from those
available in the software which was able to reproduce
the experimental heat transfer characteristics best.
Parametric studies are then made to clarify effects of
important dimensions, such as pin height, pin pitch,
upon local and averaged heat transfer characteristics as
well as pressure loss generated in the devices. This
study also introduced an index derived by the
combination of the averaged heat transfer characteristics
(Nusselt number) and the pressure loss coefficient.

diameter did not contribute to the increase in effective

wetted area.
(4) The averaged Nusselt number increased with the
Reynolds number almost in a linear fashion on the target
plate as well as the pin.
(5) The pin played a very important role in the
enhancement of overall heat transfer or heat exchange
performance. In this sense relative pin position to the
impingement hole should be carefully selected when
applying this technology to actual turbines.
Impingement Plate
(non-slip)

Outlet Block

Outlet
Inlet

2. Methodology
Figure 1 shows a schematic of the cooling device of
concern that consisted of two plates, i.e., impingement
plate and target plate, and pins. Also shown is the grid
system for analysis using CFX4.4. The pins were
equally-spaced in the x and y directions with the pitches
of Px and Py . The impingement plate had impingement
holes of x direction pitch Px and y direction pitch 2Py .
Discharging holes on the target plate had the same
pitches as those of the impingement holes. For
simplicity, all diameters of the impingement hole,
discharging hole and pin were the same and equal d
throughout this study. In the baseline case each of the
impingement holes or discharging holes was located at
the center of the rectangular formed by 4 pin centers, Px
and Py equal 2.5d.

Pin

Inlet Block
X

Target Plate
(non-slip)
0.25d
Z

Middle Block
0.25d

Near-Wall Block

Figure 1

Schematic of the target cooling device

and its grid system for CFD analyses

Case 1

Case 6

Case 7

3. Conclusions
(1) The adopted CFD solver with k turbulence
model reproduced the experimental heat transfer.
(2) For the baseline configuration, the averaged
Nusselt number on the pin as well as the pressure loss
decreased with the pin height, whereas the averaged
Nusselt number on the target plate exhibited very weak
dependency to the pin height.
(3) The pin with the height of more than 2 times pin
Figure 2 Heat transfer distributions on the target
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